Learn German with SpeedyConKiwi! (Pronunciation Fun!)
March 21, 2008 by Admin - LearnGermanLanguage.org
New Episode! Subscribe for more! (yes yes, I do mostly other stuff, but a girl’s gotta be able to promote herself, right? My channel, my rules.)
Today we’re gonna go through the alphabet and general pronunciation of the German Language.
Sounds like fun? It is!!
Besides the alphabet we will also take a look at how to pronounce
- Ä (like “ai” in English “fair”),
- Ö (kinda like “o” in English “word”)
- Ü (say a looong English “eeee” and while doing that, form your mouth to say “you”. It should be kind of in the middle of the sound of “ou” in “you” and the long “eeee”)
- ß (basically a double “s”, sounds in general a bit stronger than the normal s)
and combinations such as
- ie (English “ee”)
- ei (English “i”)
- eu (English “oy”)
- äu (same as “eu”: English “oy”)
- au (like “ow” in English “wow”)
- sch (English “sh”)
- ch (two different pronounciations, watch the video and try again and again, I can’t really describe that in words LOL)
NOT MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO:
“qu” is pronounced like “coo” in English “cool”. The Q basically never really stands alone. Hope that helped 
Thanks to all the new viewers and subscribers for the support and feedback! It’s overwhelming and I really appreciate it!! This started out as a silly video response and became this big project, and I know it takes me forever to post a new episode, but I will keep on posting more of these!
Just a few sidenotes: I will not tutor you personally, not via email and not via messenger. I cannot go through your homework. If you have questions, you can of course message me and I will try to answer them, but that’s about all I can do. It takes a lot of time to make these videos, and I make them because I have fun making them.
And I really appreciate each and every one of you who supports me with that.
THANK YOU!!!
And since my friend was stupid and deleted her videos, no link to her channel. Sorry : )
Duration : 0:8:15
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ok, forget my last …
ok, forget my last comment, b/c i can’t type what i am trying to explain! hahaha so here’s the link to the song Till Lindemann sings, and the very first word is ICH, and he says it differently than you, it’s EXACTLY how i was trying to explain, so i really don’t think the exchange student is wrong!
wow. i definitely …
wow. i definitely didn’t mean for you to get all pissed. i was just wondering, my boyfriend is from Germany also, and he says it like that. But i’m confused, b/c i didn’t mean like an S sound i meant like shhhh. like that! lol i don’t know how to explain, but i know Till Lindemann says it like that he doesn’t say ICH he says ich with a shhh sound, like ishhhh. I probably sounds like a dumbass right now, entshuldige! lol But i thought that all different parts of Germany had different dialects???
he’s wrong.
It’s …
he’s wrong.
It’s iCH and auCH.
If there’s no S, you don’t speak out an S…in german you speak like you write it, caus we ain’t in france.
Great video, easy …
Great video, easy to follow, easy to catch it…great I haved a lot of fun and now a can practice a little bit. THANK YOU! Saludos Speedy!
You do a realllllly …
You do a realllllly good job of explaining all of this! Some of the sounds ( like the two ch sounds) are so new to me that I cant quite figure them out yet, but i’m trying! and I am definatly going to subscribe to this….
Danke!
i was wondering, is …
i was wondering, is it also right if you pronounce the “ch” with a shh sound. Like “ich” would be “isch” kinda like the way Till Lindemann sings. Or schlecht would be pronounced, SchleSCHt? Just wondering. we have a German exchange student here and he says Ich like ISCH and also Auch AuSCH
i want u…
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i want u…
alles klar…
hehe although i …
hehe although i speak perfectly german i love to watch your vids.. i think its even more fun if you can speak german already xD
but the part with the two different “ch”´s was also new to me xD
Thanks much! This …
Thanks much! This is very helpful! I’m American and we have foreign exchange students from Germany and I am trying to commune with them in their language! It’s wonderful!
hey hun, thank you …
hey hun, thank you soooooo much for making these videos
they have helped me out a lot
keep up the good work!
Wow, thanks for …
Wow, thanks for that!
That was actually reaaally helpful.
And it was actually easy to make those sounds, I guess it helps that I already speak French and English fluently, some letters sounds more like French, others like English and others are just totatlly random, but since i’m used to learn different ways to pronounce, it was easy. Now I just need to remember!
Thanks
Gut. Danke
Gut. Danke
I love the german …
I love the german language thanks for the vids and by the way you are hot ¿got msn?
you forgot “st”
you forgot “st”
Jetzt hab’ sogar …
!
Jetzt hab’ sogar ich was gelernt
ok someone comment …
ok someone comment on the picture behind her at 7:35
epsilon
Greek?
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epsilon
Greek?
Brave new world?
Sorry but your …
Sorry but your majorly fit, usually fit but fit none the less. Sorry i’m 14 i should behave LOL
you are SO HOT!!!!! …
you are SO HOT!!!!!!!!!!!! wow, WOW!!!!!
Ich wußte nicht …
Ich wußte nicht dass man y = ü ausspricht.
Danke, speedyconkiwi!
y=j
y=j
wasn sc? meinst sz …
wasn sc? meinst sz oda?
lol your …
lol your description of how to pronounce “ch” was good.
totally reminded me of Deutsche Klasse in Universität.
What’s up with they …
What’s up with they “Y” lol. It sounds so weird. oh and i think I got this one sentence down.
Wie alt bist du?
Ich bin vierzehn Jahre alt.
(i take German at school, and its my FAVORITE class!!)
thank you thank you …
thank you thank you thank you!
I’ve Been tring to learn german forever!
and that helped soooo much.=]